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Sunday, June 26, 2016

From 'Never Trump' to 'Maybe Trump'

I was among a group of hundreds of Christian leaders asked to attend a private event in New York City Tuesday billed as a “Conversation with Donald Trump.” I’m glad I did.
It’s no secret that I enthusiastically endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz during the primary campaign and have been an outspoken critic of Mr. Trump’s. While I maintain many of my original reservations, after Tuesday’s meeting, and as I told CBN News in an interview immediately following the event, I can now count myself among other Christian leaders in attendance who have moved from the “Never Trump” camp, to the “Maybe Trump” category.
For better or worse, this election has come down to two people: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Anyone who thinks that some third-party candidate or parliamentary shenanigans at the GOP Convention in Cleveland will change this reality are fooling themselves. Either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States.
I believe that if Hillary Clinton is elected, America is done, the U.S. Constitution is toast, and she will finish what Obama began – the “fundamental transformation” of America into a godless, neo-Marxist Third World banana republic. We’ve had decades of the Clintons to establish beyond any reasonable doubt that this woman is not only the most corrupt elitist to ever seek the presidency, she’s an evil ideologue hell-bent on the abolition of individual liberties and religious freedom. While Great Britain just voted to reclaim its national sovereignty, a vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote to completely relinquish our own.
Which leaves us Donald Trump.

The Clinton - Mezvinksy - Soros Connection

Edward Mezvinsky was born January 17, 1937.
Then you'll probably say, "Who is Ed Mezvinsky?" Well, he is a former Democrat congressman who represented Iowa's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977. He sat on the House Judiciary Committee that decided the fate of Richard Nixon.
He was outspoken saying that Nixon was a crook and a disgrace to politics and the nation and should be impeached.
He and the Clintons were friends and very politically intertwined for many years.
Ed Mezvinsky had an affair with NBC News reporter Marjorie Sue Margolies and later married her after his wife divorced him.
In 1993, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, then a freshman Democrat in Congress, cast the deciding vote that got President Bill Clinton's controversial tax package through the House of Representatives.
In March 2001, Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 counts of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud. Ed Mezvinsky embezzled more than $10 million dollars from people via both a Ponzi scheme and the notorious Nigerian e-mail scams. He was found guilty and sentenced to 80 months in federal prison. After serving less than five years in federal prison, he was released in April 2008 and remains on federal probation.
To this day, he still owes $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.
About now you are saying, "So what!"
Well, this is Marc and Chelsea Mezvinsky.
That's right; Ed Mezvinsky is Chelsea Clinton's father-in law. Clintons staying at Soros Family home during Chelsea’s wedding Now Marc and Chelsea are in their early thirties and purchased a 10.5 million dollar NYC apartment (after being married in George Soros' mansion).
Has anyone heard mention of any of this in any of the media? {And now you have a brief insight into how the Committee's billionaire elite control the politics and direction of nations - Ed.}
If this guy was Jenna or Barbara Bush's, or better yet, Sarah Palin's daughter's father-in- law, the news would be an everyday headline and every detail would be reported over and over. And yet liberals say there are no double standards in political reporting.

Obama's Seven Deadly Clichés To Obscure the Nature of the War on Terrorism

On June 12, an intruder who was armed and Muslim attacked an Orlando night club, killing 49 and wounding 53. The body count may rise, the targets vary (a Christmas party, a military base, a marathon, a bar) but the administration never departs from its script.
Orlando fit the template: An immigrant or the child of immigrants from jihadistan (Pakistan, Afghanistan, the West Bank), who prayed at a radical mosque, visited Islamist websites, became increasingly bitter and often expressed his hatred for Americans, strikes. And the establishment pretends not to notice the pattern.
The number of terrorist attacks in the United States and abroad has proliferated under Obama.
Instead of fighting terrorism, the president has focused on fighting those who see Islam as a threat. The FBI has been neutered, law enforcement agencies given sensitivity training, and terrorist incidents used to push one of the left's favorite panaceas – more gun control.
If the White House had a manual on how to rationalize the slaughter (a playbook for responding to a worldwide crisis with platitudes), it would include these talking points:
1. The motivation has yet to be determined – On the heels of the most devastating terrorist incident since 9/11, Mr. Obama told us it was still too early "to know the precise motivations of the killer."
The president is on autopilot. At a 2009 memorial service for the Ft. Hood victims, he called the rampage "incomprehensible."
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 soldiers at the Texas Army base, shouted "Allah is great" as he pumped round after round into his victims. He prayed at a radical mosque, corresponded with a rabid imam in Yemen (later killed in a drone-strike), blamed the United States for fighting in the Middle East, and had business cards that identified him as a "Soldier of Allah." Even Inspector Clouseau could figure this one out.
Omar Mateen, the Orlando killer, was another angry Islamist (The New York Times said co-workers described him as "always agitated, always mad," as opposed to all of the Muslim bon vivants), who often expressed hatred for America, visited jihadist websites, called the police during the siege of the Pulse nightclub to pledge his allegiance to ISIS, and praised the Boston Marathon bombers. The attack happened during the merry month of Ramadan, when an ISIS spokesman called on Muslims to make "a month of calamity everywhere for non-believers." How does it get any more precise?
For the ideologue in the Oval Office, the only smoking gun is an AR-15.
2. Don't point fingers – When a loon posed with a confederate battle flag before killing nine people at a black church in North Carolina, the left had no difficulty pointing a finger at white racism, leading to the removal of the Stars and Bars from public spaces throughout the south.
When a neighborhood watch volunteer shot and killed hoodie hoodlum Trayvon Martin, the president knew exactly what was going on. After the acquittal of George Zimmerman, Obama delivered one of his homilies on "racial profiling" and the sins of "typical white persons."
President Bill Clinton blamed conservative talk radio for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Following the Pulse attack, an ACLU lawyer blamed the tragedy on the "anti-queer climate" created by Christian homophobes. Understand, imams shouting "Homosexuals must die" (as one did in Orlando in April) and their public execution in Iran and Afghanistan had nothing to do with Mateen's rampage, which was fueled by opposition to marriage deconstruction and "transgendered" rest rooms.
The workings of the liberal mind are truly a wonder to behold.
3. Don't single out an entire religious community – After Orlando, Obama warned us against anything that "suggests entire religious communities are complicit in violence." "Are we going to start treating Muslim-Americans differently?" the president whined.
What do Nidal Malik Hasan, Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev (the Boston Marathon bombers), Syed Farook and his lovely bride Tashfeen Malik (who killed 14 at a Christmas party in San Bernardino last December) and Omar Mateen have in common – passion for stamp collecting, being known as connoisseurs of fine wine? All are/were immigrants or the children of immigrants from jihadistan, who were serious Muslims committed to holy war.
Muslim-Americans should be treated like the members of any religious community whose faith teaches that killing unbelievers is a ticket to heaven, that regularly produces mass murderers, whose houses of worship host hate fests and whose communal organizations urge them not to cooperate with authorities in terror investigations.
4. "Avoid dangerous mindsets reminiscent of the darkest, most shameful periods in American history" – Recognizing the reality of Muslim terrorism, and working to combat it, is equated with the KKK, Wounded Knee, segregated lunch counters and the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Obama believes American history is a chronicle of bloodshed and brutal oppression, so he sees resistance to admitting refugees from savage lands who can't be screened as the equivalent of lynch mobs and the Trail of Tears.
5. It was a lone wolf attack – We're supposed to take comfort from the fact that Mateen wasn't part of a terrorist cell and didn't take orders directly from ISIS GHQ.
With the Internet and social media, agents can be recruited and trained in the privacy of their homes. ISIS tells them they don't have to come to Syria for training. Better to stay where they are, pick a target and strike. "Resist with all means, kill them, slaughter them, burn their cars and homes… if you see a police officer – kill him. Kill them all. Kill all infidels that you see in the streets," ISIS commands its followers.
6. Blame easy access to weapons – It came as a shock that Obama put the blame for Orlando on access to "very powerful weapons very quickly." "That's a problem regardless of their (mass murderers') motivations," he insisted.
Like the rest of the left's agenda, facts are irrelevant here. That it's almost impossible to legally own guns in Europe didn't stop attacks in Paris and Brussels. Mateen was a licensed security guard with a firm that contracted with DHS, who passed several background checks. The left's war on guns is a diversionary tactic to shift the focus away from its refusal to confront the reality of terrorism.
7. What would labeling accomplish? – "What exactly would using this label (radical Islamic terrorists) accomplish? What exactly would it change?" the president plaintively asks.
You can't counter a menace you're unwilling to name. The term "Radical Islamic terrorism," correctly suggests that there's a problem with Islam – that it can be the motivation for indiscriminate slaughter. And that the president and those who share his mindset can never admit. It would be the first step on the road to recovery for the hopelessly delusional.
We've heard all of these clichés for eight years. It's no longer the fire next door, but the blazing inferno in our backyard. If two terms of the anti-American, race-obsessed Islamophile in the White House are followed by eight years of his corrupt fembot clone, we might as well lay down our arms and let the caliphate march in.

REFUGEES SENDING 'SUITCASES OF WELFARE CASH' HOME TO SOMALIA

Men and women pulling “suitcases full of cash” started showing up at Seattle’s Sea-Tac Airport last year holding tickets for international flights bound for Africa.
Transporting large amounts of cash overseas is perfectly legal. But it was who was carrying the money … and where it was going that caught the attention of law enforcement, according to a report by KING 5, the local NBC affiliate for western Washington.
Those hauling the cash-laden cases were Somali-Americans who’d come to this country as refugees. They routinely send money back to Somalia. And many of the greenbacks headed to the jihadist-infested East African country come from welfare checks the refugees receive from the U.S. government, compliments of American taxpayers.
Carrying more than $10,000 while traveling out of the United States is legal as long as the traveler declares it by filling out a one-page federal form.
It was while looking at these slips of paper that terrorism expert Glenn Kerns found a disturbing pattern.
“The thing was the amount, the staggering amount,” said Kerns, a Seattle police officer who was assigned to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force for 14 years before he retired in December.
The cash couriers were working for hawalas – businesses that derive their name from the Arabic word for “transfer.” Hawalas are part of a traditional system of banking in Shariah-compliant Muslim communities.
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But is all of it going to downtrodden family members?
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It would make sense, since Somalia is home to an active jihadist rebellion from al-Shabab, an al-Qaida affiliate that slaughters Christians in neighboring Kenya and seeks to establish an ISIS-like caliphate in East Africa.

US Media Ignores Obama's Role in Brexit Disaster

Watch any of the TV news talk shows Friday and almost all have ignored one important fact: the Brexit 'Leave' victory was another humiliating loss for President Barack Obama.

In fact, some British polls even showed that voter sentiment moved decidedly in favor of Brexit after Obama traveled to Britain and urged a "no" vote.

British voters delivered a stinging rebuke to Obama on Thursday when they opted to leave the EU by a 52 percent to 48 percent margin.

So strong was the backlash to Obama's blatant attempt to influence the Brexit vote – polls following his April visit to London showed the opposition to his remarks running at about 60 percent – that a reasonable case could be made he contributed to the outcome.

Obama's threatening remarks against Britain over Brexit seemed to have ignited a tempest.